Lead toxicity is “an unaddressed public health crisis that leads to over 1 million deaths annually,” Jia Xu Brian Sia says. He is part of a team that developed low-cost, chip-scale devices for monitoring water for lead and other heavy metals.

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, founded by MIT affiliates, has turned RNAi’s scientific promise into a new class of powerful therapies. “Alnylam has invested over 20 years and more than $4 billion in RNAi to develop these new therapeutics,” Phil Sharp says.

Bloomberg reported that showing AI-generated images of a less car-reliant city boosted support for sustainable transportation policies. “Let’s help them imagine what it would actually be like to live in a car-less neighborhood,” Rachit Dubey said.

MIT graduate student Ashutosh Kumar applies skills from his materials science background toward studying the relationship between bacteria and cancer. “There’s an unmet need to understand a lot of gynecological cancers,” he says.

Research based on a classroom exercise in MIT Physics course 8.S30 (Observational Stellar Archaeology) led to the discovery of three of the universe’s oldest stars. “This class immediately put us at the frontier of research in astrophysics,” says Hillary Andales ’23.

WMBR 88.1 FM, MIT’s all-volunteer radio station, builds community connections with its music and spoken-word shows. “It’s really fun ... being able to hang out with people who love music just as much as you do,” says co-general manager Maggie Lin.